At the Tegel airport in Berlin, I was messaging this man who had contacted me through Couchsurfing.com. He said he was going on a trip to south Iceland from Reykjavik and didn’t want to go alone. I was kind of skeptical and a little bit worried because he had no references yet on the website, and so I had no idea where this would go… but I took my chances. And I’m glad I did 🙂
There were a lot of questions in my mind – what if he flakes (he said he would pick me up from the airport), what if he ends up being a freak or sex offender… However, this was an opportunity to go visit a part of Iceland I would not see otherwise, as he was a local and would know places to go that the tour buses wouldn’t. That is exactly what I was looking for.